Police: Fatal Austin mass shooting arose from a teenage feud
A deadly weekend mass shooting in Austin’s famed...
Self-driving car pioneer Waymo gets $2.5B to fuel ambitions
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Waymo, the self-driving car pioneer spun off from Google, isn't allowing a recent wave of executive departures to detour its...
Winfrey’s new book pick is novel ‘The Sweetness of Water’
NEW YORK — Oprah Winfrey's next book club pick is a debut novel set in Georgia at the end of the Civil War: Nathan...
Candy Straight, who led push to get GOP women elected, dies
TRENTON, N.J. — Candace “Candy” Straight, an investment banker and film producer who worked for decades to help get women elected to office in...
Justice Department to tighten rules on seizing Congress data
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department will tighten its rules around obtaining records from members of Congress, Attorney General Merrick Garland said, amid revelations the...
South Carolina inmates want deaths delayed during appeal
Days before what could be South Carolina's first execution in a decade, the two inmates scheduled to die this month under the state’s recently...
Donated US vaccines arrive for Mexican border cities
MEXICO CITY — Mexico received 1.35 million doses of Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccines donated by the United States Tuesday and Mexican officials said...
Want a job? Employers say: Talk to the computer
A day after her interview for a part-time job at Target last year, Dana Anthony got an email informing her she didn't make the...
‘We need more’: Democrats frustrated as agenda faces hurdles
EDWARDSVILLE, Pa. — They have spent much of the past year fighting for Democrats in this working-class corner of northeastern Pennsylvania, knocking on thousands...
US West swelters in record-busting heat, risking wildfires
PHOENIX — Dangerous, record-busting heat spread across the U.S. Southwest on Tuesday and into parts of Utah, Montana and Wyoming as a dome of...